Day May 23, 2008

China’s all-seeing eye

Remember how we’ve always been told that free markets and free people go hand in hand? That was a lie. It turns out that the most efficient delivery system for capitalism is actually a communist-style police state, fortressed with American…

More from those zany comedians at NAR

Financial bloggers, especially those who cover real estate, look forward with glee to the eternally optimistic announcements from the National Association of Realtors that, by golly, we’ve turned the corner, those pesky speed bumps are behind us, and all is…

Fin power creates electricity

This new technology, using a design based on a shark or tuna tail, will create electricity from the movement of ocean water. Right now, it’s expensive, but then, all new technology is. Maybe one day it will be available in…

Spotcrime

Spotcrime mashes up Google Maps with stats of serious crime to give a visual of where crime is in a given city. So far, they have maps for dozens of US cities. TechCrunch has more.